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You can use a [url="http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=110&item=FWB-156W&type=store"]<u>bridge rectifier</u>[/url]. Unless you hold the locomotive down on the track to keep the wheels from turning and the transformer doesn't have a built in circuit breaker, <b>higher amp output will not ruin the motors</b> in the locomotives. The motor will only draw what it needs. Before DCC, amprage ratings had been increasing in order to run more trains. Most DCC amperage output for HO and N scales is 5 to 8 amps. Higher <b>voltage</b> will, on the other hand,damage motors and burn out lights. <br /> <br /> <b>There is a danger of damaging track from high amperage should there be a short across the track. Therefore if the transformer does not have a built in circuit breaker you must add one between the transformer and the track for saftey.</b> <br /> <br /> What do you plan on doing with it anyway?
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